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Note: The following information is from an 1880 report prepared by the St. Louis Health Department.
There are 28 cemeteries connected with St. Louis, 15 being within the city and 13 outside, varying in distance from 1 to 6 miles from the city limits. Those within the city are as follows:
Potter's Field, in the 27th ward. Gravois-Saxon, area 12 acres, in the 26th ward. Saint Paul's, area 9 acres, in the 25th ward. Saint Mark's, area 27 1/2 acres, in the same ward. Saint Peter and Saint Paul's, area 21 1/2 acres; also in the same ward. New Pickers, area 9 acres; also in the same ward. Old Pickers, or Holy Ghost, area 20 acres, in the 21st ward. Rock Spring, area 8 acres, in the 27th ward. West Lutheran, or Papin-Saxon, area 15 acres, in the 15th ward. Friedensgemeide, area 12 acres, situated partly in the 23d ward and partly outside the city. Bellefontaine, area 333 acres, in the 23d ward. Calvary, area 240 acres, situated near the former, in the same ward. Holy Trinity, in the 23d ward. Saint Matthew's, area 12 acres, in the 25th ward. Bremen-Saxon, in the 23d ward.
Those outside the city are:
Mount Sinai, 1/4 mile from the limits, on the Gravois road. New Wesleyan, 8 miles from the court-house, on the Olive Street road. Mount Olive, 1 mile farther out, on the same road. Mount Shereth Israel, 8 miles out, on the Olive Street road. Bethania, 7 miles out, on the Saint Charles Rock road. Greenwood, 7 miles out, on the Hunt road. Salem, the same distance out, on the Natural Bridge road. Saint John's, 8 miles out, on the Saint Cyr road. Mount Olive, on Lame' Ferry road, 3 miles south of city limits. Evangelical Lutheran, 1 mile farther south, on the same road. Oakdale, 3 miles outside of limits, on the same road. Saint Ann's, 8 miles from city. |
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